OC's Most Powerful Journalist Isn't Here

According to a recent New York Times magazine story, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer is most concerned with keeping contact with one journalist above all others: Mike Allen of Politico.com.

Evidence? The last person Pfeiffer emails each night is Allen, who is also the first person he emails when he wakes each morning, the Times story notes.

Why? Because Allen's e-mail tipsheet, Playbook, "has become the principal early-morning document for an elite set of political and news-media thrivers and strivers," wrote reporter Mark Leibovich for the magazine.

According to the story, Allen grew up "apolitical" in Orange County's Seal Beach.

R. Scott Moxley’s award-winning investigative journalism has touched nerves for two decades. An angry congressman threatened to break Moxley’s knee caps. A dirty sheriff promised his critical reporting was irrelevant and then landed in prison. Corporate crooks won’t take his calls. Murderous gangsters mad-dogged him in court. The U.S. House of Representatives debated his work. Pusillanimous cops have left hostile messages using fake names. Federal prosecutors credited his stories for the arrest of a doctor who sold fake medicine to dying patients. And a frantic state legislator literally caught sleeping with lobbyists sprinted down state capital hallways to evade his questions in Sacramento.